The Bozeman City Study Commission held a public hearing on June 18, 2026, beginning at 5:30 PM, to receive input on the tentative report and proposed amendments to the city charter. The meeting included a consent calendar, updates from commissioners, extensive public testimony from approximately 20 speakers, and discussion of a voter engagement plan. The commission approved a $60,000 personnel contract and $65,000 for voter engagement, set a public comment deadline of June 26, and scheduled future meetings for July 15, 23 (tentative), 30, and August 6 for final adoption.
Like it's frowned upon for us to use uh plastic water bottles now because we have you know our sustainability rules and we're putting like bottle filling stations when we remodel this building. Is that the other one? But this is your two-minute warning. We will start in two minutes. See what you're talking about. Okay, uh, I think that's what we have to do with the meeting that's that's like a need to make a lot of the smaller versions. Yeah, it's just like there's a picture of the picture. Yeah, that's what we need to do. One minute morning, please keep talking. You don't want to sit in silence. Carson's like church here though. Like no one's in the front row. Did you bite someone last time we had a meeting or something? I did, I did. I'm sorry. Yeah. I once had a speaking engagement and everybody sat back like that and let's start it off by saying, I'm having trouble speaking. If you could come to the front row, everybody moved to the front and then I started talking normally. They were ticked. Carson is five seconds. Just do it. Do it. I'll call to order the Bozeman City Study Commission meeting of June eighteenth, twenty twenty-six, at five PM. Five thirty PM. If you're able, please stand for the pledge of allegiance. We'll follow up with a moment of silence for which you may be seated if you like. I played allegiance. Thank you very much, and welcome everyone. To this meeting, the primary subject of which is the tentative report and changes in the existing charter. Um hopefully you all came prepared to give us some input or some thoughts or just to watch whatever uh whatever works. First item on the second item on the agenda is changes to the agenda. The one change we're gonna make since this is mostly a public hearing and mostly about us listening to you, is I'm gonna move public comment to right after we get rid of our uh regular business to consent agenda and correspondence or study commission update. Then we'd dive right in and um we'll start our session then with a brief um summary of what we've done so far, and then um the floor is yours. Uh there are some people online who will uh want to speak, no doubt as well. And um I'm toying with the idea. I want you to all think about it because we're talking about an entire document, actually, two documents. Should we expand the time from three minutes to four minutes or five? And that would depend partly on how many people are gonna uh talk. Um, so um sort of have in mind what you think is right, and I'll probably do a quick poll at the last minute uh before we start. I'm thinking right now I'm thinking four minutes um would do the job for everybody, and um we'll go from there. All right, consent agenda. Is there any public comment on the consent agenda? Good. Carson, I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, so indicate by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries unanimously. Next item on the agenda is correspondence or study commission update.